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Beit HaShita

Beit HaShita (Hebrew: בית השיטה, lit.'House of the Acacia') is a kibbutz in northern Israel, under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. As of 2023 it had a population of 1,464.

The built-up area of Beit Hashita ranges from 70 meters below sea level to sea level.

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The kibbutz traces its origin to a group meeting held in Hadera in 1928, by "Kvuzat HaHugim" of the HaMahanot HaOlim movement from Haifa and Jerusalem. The first members lived at nearby Ein Harod until 1934, when establishment of the kibbutz began at its present location about 1 km east of Shatta.

The land of the kibbutz was purchased by the Palestine Land Development Company from its Arab owners in 1931. In 2015, a grandchild of kibbutz residents, Jasmine Donahaye, published Losing Israel in which she expressed her disillusionment on learning of the eviction of Arabs on the founding of the kibbutz.

The kibbutz was later named after the biblical town Beit Hashita, where the Midianites fled after being beaten by Gideon (Judges 7:22), thought to be located where Shatta was. It falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council.

In the 1945 statistics, Beit hash Shitta had 590 inhabitants, all Jews. It was noted that Shatta was an alternative name.

In 1948, Beit HaShita took over 5,400 dunams of land from the newly depopulated Arab villages of Yubla and Al-Murassas.

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